Deadpool doesn’t give a !@#$ about this review

If you don't like Deadpool, chances are you will...and if you don't, who gives a [litany of curses]? Did you come in looking for something deep and meaningful? Tough luck, pal. All you're going to get are jokes. Some about penises. Others about vaginas. A handful about butts. There's at least one about turning someone's head into two of those things.

But maybe that's the point. Life is a joke—so laugh. Deadpool, a character conceived in the 1990s specifically to make sure people in 2016 would know how funny Ryan Reynolds could be even after a series of flops (or so it would seem), goes through [expletive] torture and, vengeance aside, he carries on. And he's here to entertain.

The character and the movie defecates on itself, starting with the opening sequence. Director Tim Miller and cinematographer Ken Seng (with the help of CGI) lay the cards on the table immediately: A set of archetypes and violence. Ready, set, go f!@# yourselves if you don't want to have a good time.

Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) just hanging around. Photo: 20th Century Fox

Who wants to be sad? Certainly not Deadpool. The seeming worst has happened, but instead of being all mopey about it, he sets a goal and describes himself as a testicle with teeth. A lot of sense of humor could potentially save your life...and rescue a movie from being a bore, like the Wolverine series. Yawn.

The character, hence the movie, doesn't take itself too seriously. Aside from being hyper aware and self-reflexive, it manages to rid itself of any other baggage to focus on one thing: make the audience feel good, while also showing them a fun way to deal with excrement that happens daily. (Hint: Use it as amusement.)

Heroes, antiheroes—we've seen them all and they're all about just trying to do what you think is right. Deadpool, he's not so into that. He just wants to be cute again and marry the girl who also thinks that tragedy is funny. No question of identity either, because Deadpool is Wade and although he worries that being disfigured would turn Vanessa away, nothing in the movie changed him.

He's just a foul-mouthed thug who wants to get with this hot and awesome person he met in a bar. Deadpool is all of us and we really ought to like that occasionally juvenile, slightly selfish, somewhat (figuratively) tortured part of ourselves more.

The only real disappointing part of Deadpool is that it could probably have been more vulgar. The Negasonic Teenage Warheads of the world might leave the theater feeling none too enthused. — BM, GMA News

"Deadpool" is rated R-16. It opens today, Feb. 10, in 2D and IMAX screens.